BX23 BT600 (fairly popular SCUT tractor type, and its backhoe attachment designations) cylinder (hydraulic, area of forum) rebuild parts (mostly circular pieces needed to restore to service after years of use and wear, commonly sold in a group - kit) are ridiculous (overly priced for what there is in a kit)!
I had done (personally rebuilt) my FEL (common abbreviation for Front End Loader, equipment on same BX 23 tractor assembly) myself one at a time (one hydraulic cylinder was rebuilt and restored to service, then later another, and so on for a total of three [3] on this end of machine) so I didn't notice as much (purchasing one at a time the price did not add up to such a significant [high] amount of dollars),
(I'll agree this is a run-on, and should have at least been a semicolon);
but these (the kits for the new problem area, the BT600) X4, X1 (one kit is used in four [4] places, another used in one [1] place) are really adding up (the total amount in dollars to prepare for the job is a lot of money).
I was gonna' get (had placed in a Messick's cart) the ones (kits) I needed (for the hydraulic cylinders that are leaking down[indicating internal passage of fluid]) and a spare (extra kit, to have in stock on the shelf for each hydraulic cylinder that used a different kit [presumably for size differences]), so far (the total of the cart before purchase) it's (it is - the cart total) $800 (US dollars) for a few o-rings, slides, and seals (description of repair kit contents, the circular pieces needed to repair and return the hydraulic cylinders to service) - wow (personal observation of the price when doing more than one at a time)!
So, rant over (common ending of personal opinion section in forum posts), base (simplest factory version) BT600 (machine section designation being worked on) Boom/Dipper/Stab/Stab (names of backhoe cylinder function/locations ("Dipper" for dipperstick, "Stab" twice to indicate to the two [2] stabilizers) seem to be same kit (though these are 4 different cylinders, they share the same repair kits), Bucket (another backhoe function) another (this one takes another [different] kit to repair)
(controls 6X same kit)(the control valve section has six [6] different functions to control the different cylinders, they all take the same rebuild kit).
How do I find these from OE supplier?
(I do not wish the pay the high prices to get these [as many as twelve {12}] kits through the Kubota system. I wish to find them [or someone willing to help me find them] from the supplier to Kubota [commonly an Original Equipment], a manufacturer who specializes in an item and sells them to equipment manufacturers, and often to users)
How do I buy them reasonable?
(I hope to buy them at say, only 10 times the cost to manufacture. [This was sarcasm again, sorry.] I had hoped to buy them at a price similar to the individual parts prices in a non-captive [open] market.)
Can I just cross from K seal kits?
(I had made a cylinder and repair kit chart to establish pricing, and hoped a helper would know a website that could cross-reference [function of using an index to convert] from the Kubota part numbers for either the cylinders or the actual kits to that suppliers number system. If someone helping knew a supplier's website that could just cross-reference it would be very helpful.)
THX any and all!
(For some reason, I'm trying to be friendly and pre-emptively [in advance] thank someone for actually trying to help me.)
Thanks for all the help!
I did find a guy (hydraulic cylinder company) that worked 'by the hour'. I'm thinking of taking one (of the hydraulic cylinders) in (to the shop) pre-disassembled and trying him out.
The hard parts of the job seem to be holding the pieces while loosening the two [2] nuts and placing the hard plastic seal/slide on the piston with minimal (the least amount of) deformation (damage).
He did mention "metric" as though a potential ('time will tell') problem. I can find no size listings for these particular hydraulic cylinders. I don't know if that will be really a problem.
